German photojournalist Mario Gerth has captured the incredible, dramatic landscape of northern Ethiopia in this collection of stunning black and white images. It includes shots taken in the Simien Mountains and the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. Mario trekked more than 350 miles by foot and donkey through one of the Africa’s remotest regions. He found monks praying with 600-year-old Bibles, and farmers and shepherds whose methods haven’t changed in thousands of years. I trekked in these mountains a few years ago, and...
As today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we thought it was a great opportunity to ask ONE members their best advice for activists working towards this goal.  So we posted a question on our Facebook page.  And 287 of you replied. Now our creative team at ONE are good, but even they couldn’t turn that many responses into a graphic for us to share.  So we picked 29 of our favourites, and here’s the result. Whether you’re a self-proclaimed...
Ever wondered how many protests take place around the world?  This incredible animated map tracks every known protest since 1979, which adds up to 250 million individual events. The data is taken from The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) which tracks international news reports and records protests, violence and changes in military or police posture. What’s incredible is the increase in activity over time.  These are the protests happening in December 1983. And this is February 2012. The map is tracking...
This infographic from the OECD Development Assistance Committee projects which countries will be home to the world’s poorest people by 2015, and compares this to the picture in 2005.  Part of their report Fragile states 2013: Resource flows and trends in a shifting world it reveals that by 2015, half of the world’s people living on less than USD 1.25 a day will be in fragile states.   And while poverty has decreased globally, progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 to halve...
Throughout history, protest songs have inspired and celebrated social change. ONE’s agit8 project harnesses the power of protest songs to inspire a new generation to join the protest of our lifetime: extreme poverty.   Listen to Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ and learn about the movement that abolished slavery. Photo used under Creative Commons: Flickr/National Archives Old pirates, yes, they rob I I, and 9-12 million Africans were robbed of our freedom and sent to the Americas as slaves Sold I to the merchant ships from the...
Our campaign to start a global food revolution and put nutrition firmly on the agenda of world leaders is really picking up speed.   An amazing 266,000 people have added their voice so far, and with leaders meeting for a nutrition summit in just a few weeks, they will have to start listening. Our infographic tells the story of how malnutrition is affecting all of us, no matter where we live. Please share it and if you haven’t already, add your name...